fast
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But experts warn the sprawling salt flats of Montenegro's Ulcinj salina, a vital stop-off for migrating flamingos, pelicans and other species, is fading fast.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Yamal isn’t the first teenager to hit a speed bump after taking the fast track into his national team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Operating margin includes ad revenue, which is rising fast and keeps the market bullish on Netflix.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Taco Bell has tried and failed to establish itself in Mexico twice, despite being one of the world's biggest fast food franchises.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Everything was moving too fast and everything was going so slowly that I lived a whole lifetime in that moment.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
"Better planning would have resulted in fairer, faster and less costly procurement decisions."
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Americans’ wages grew faster than inflation in June after two months when prices — especially at the gas pump — were beating the growth in their paychecks.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Changes in these markers can provide insight into whether the body's cells appear to be aging faster or more slowly than expected.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
He highlighted strong growth in labor productivity, or output per hour worked, a development that can allow the economy to grow faster without generating inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
I’m a full tenth of a second faster than my personal best.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
There’s been a shift in who is seeing the fastest paycheck bumps.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Climate change is driving up temperatures around the world, and Europe is the fastest warming continent, heating up twice as fast as the global average, according to the Copernicus climate service.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
The Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo is the "fastest growing" ever, African health authorities said Thursday, as the World Health Organization said it had killed 600 people.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
The fastest traditional cashiers check out around 70 shoppers per hour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Not because she’s the fastest, but because she has the most to lose with this bet.
From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi
Bishnoi meditates every morning and fasts many days of the month, the cousin said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Other recent studies on prolonged fasting have also found that the body enters a deep ketogenic state during multi day fasts, dramatically changing how cells use fuel.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026
In the following years, they built a flourishing movement fighting for farmworkers’ rights, employing marches, fasts and other nonviolent protest actions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
The Beeches Primary School in Peterborough said about 30 Muslim children in the years 5 and 6 were observing the fasts, during which they refrain from eating between dawn and dusk.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2024
She was as skinny as a boy or a supermodel, or a boy supermodel, and Tiara felt a pang of envy that Petra would never have to endure daily weigh-ins or go on juice fasts.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
He said that he did go to the mosque every Friday, and that he prayed and fasted and raised his children to be good Muslims.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
In came the resistance bands, dead lifts, dumbbells and agility drills, plus a private chef who got a sweet break from 8 p.m. until noon the next day, as Doncic intermittently fasted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2025
Booker apparently fasted and cut his water intake so he could reduce the need to visit a bathroom.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2025
The same year, 1988, she fasted in solidarity with her grandfather to protest the use of pesticides on table grapes, and passed out fliers about the issue to grocery store customers in Fresno.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2024
She even slept and fasted in the woods for a name, but the spirits were stubborn.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
Participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups: intermittent fasting, continuous calorie restriction, or standard care.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026
With these shorter daily fasting periods, it will take longer to lose fat and improve metabolism than versions of restricted eating that call for 16 hours of fasting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
A version of time-restricted eating that is particularly easy to adopt involves limiting food consumption to 11 to 12 hours a day and fasting for 12 to 13 hours a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The American College of Sports Medicine’s position is that exercising after meals and in the afternoon outperforms fasting and morning exercise sessions for glycemic control.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 21, 2026
He would have been fasting for months while waiting for the sea ice to re-form, but he was still twice as big as the bear that had wrecked them before.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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